How To Make Slime Without Borax

Do your kids want slime that stretches for miles? Or is at least really stretchy! Discover how to make stretchy slime with an awesome 3 Ingredient Slime Recipe that DOES NOT USE liquid starch or borax powder. What I love most about our this recipe is the super stretch you get from this slime! We will make sure you know how to master your homemade slime recipes!

Also in Canada, Borax powder is not suggested for use in kids activities, and in the UK it is not readily available. Our other favorite slime recipe uses liquid starch. However, this is not available in Canada or the UK either.

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NOTE: Our Saline Solution Slime Recipe is also just as stretchy! Saline solution is easy to find and comes in big bottles. We like Target’s Up and Up Brand for Sensitive Eyes.

MAKE STRETCHY SLIME FOR SCIENCE!

Did you know that slime is science too! Kids love to play with science and slime is a great way to encourage your kiddos to learn more about science. Slime making is all about chemistry. Liquids and solids, Non-newtonian fluids, polymers, and so much more.

You will definitely want to make stretchy slime in a few colors! We made three batches because we love the way slime looks when the colors swirl together!

Of course, a large batch of slime will add to the all over amount of stretch you can get out of the slime. Grab a ruler and see how long you can stretch it before it breaks. Here’s a hint, stretch slowly, pull gently, and let gravity help you out!

This slime gets better with time. It requires you to spend some extra time kneading it, but you will have an awesome feeling stretchy slime when you are done.

Plus to make slime without borax, it’s only 3 ingredients, and you may even have them all already!

We spent some time tinkering with our recipe to find the right mix of baking soda and eye drops. Then we went ahead and tested our favorite version several more times to make sure it would consistently work!

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HOW TO MAKE SLIME WITHOUT BORAX!

Remember you can also use our saline solution slime recipe for equally stretchy slime. We find that white glue stretches even farther than clear glue, but that’s a great science experiment to explore too.

SLIME SUPPLIES:

Approximately 2 tbsp of Eye Drops (make sure boric acid is listed as an ingredient)

1/2-3/4 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 cup Elmer’s Washable School Glue

Food Coloring {optional but fun}

Mixing Bowl, Measuring Cup, and Spoon

HOW TO MAKE STRETCHY SLIME WITHOUT BORAX

STEP 1: First measure a 1/2 cup of your glue into a mixing container.

STEP 2: Add food coloring. For a deeper shade, because the glue is white, I like to use anywhere form 10-15 drops of food coloring. Stir to combine!

STEP 3: Add 3/4 teaspoon {I did not level my 1/4 tsp exactly, so this may be closer to a full tsp worth of baking soda}. Mix it up!

STEP 4: You can start by adding a full tbsp of eye drops and see how you like that consistency, you may need to add more. You can also follow our method below if you want to fine tune the consistency to your desired texture.

Over adding the slime activator, eye drops, can lead to a rubbery and too firm slime.

Now for the eye drops! Add 10 eye drops and mix. Add 10 more and mix. You will start to see some consistency changes. Add 10 more drops and mix.

Even more change is happening. Add 10 more drops and you should be seeing a pretty thick and stiff mixture. You can probably grab it and start to pull it away some but it’s still really sticky.

Add 10 more and mix.

STEP 5: Now, it gets fun. {You have added 40 drops so far.} Put a few drops of the eye drop solution on your fingers and pull out the slime.

It should come out nicely but still feel slightly sticky. The eye drops on your hands will help. Start working the slime and kneading. My husband says I look like I am pulling taffy.

Additionally I will add 5 more drops to the slime while it’s in my hands. Just keep kneading and pulling and folding it for a good five minutes. {In the end I have used 45-50 drops of our eye drop solution}

Kneading is an extremely important part of making slime! It will improve the consistency considerably!

This is a good view of how it comes together at the point where you are going to remove it from the container to start kneading it.

There’s noting better than a huge pile of slime to play with anytime. Our slime was just as much fun the next day.

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I tried and it didn’t work… My saline solution does contain boric acid so the glue is the problem? I’m from France and I didn’t use the Elmer’s school glue that everyone all over the Internet seems to use for slime. I used a vinylic white glue (standard glue used in french school). Any advice where it went wrong?

PLEASE HELP… I need some help… I just don’t get it 🙁 I have made this recipe 8 times in the hopes I will figure it out… but every time, without fail, after a few hours it turns to rubber. Please help me figure out what I am doing wrong. My girls get all excited and then boom… disappointment.

PLEASE HELP ME I have made this recipe 8 times in the hope of finding the right combo… but each time, without fail, it turns to rubber after a few hours. My girls get all excited play with it then the disappointment hits. Please tell me what I can address do differently to stop this.

I had made three colors of this slime. Light blue, pastel pink and a green that we turned to black. It worked super well but the next day it dried up. I have put it in a container with a lid. Can you help me where I went wrong on?

Just double checking that you originally stored it in a container with a lid? I figured thats what you meant. Did you try working it into itself? I don’t know what might have happened, I have a batch I never stuck in a container still sitting out and it hasn’t dried out. I would give it another go and make a fresh batch.

If you followed the recipe exactly, this should not be an issue since you achieved it once. Every now and then this will happen to me and I have found the reason to simply be a bad batch of glue! I would definitely check out amazon for the gallons of white glue. I couldn’t believe how much cheaper it was to make slime that way!

We used latex glue (can’t get Elmer’s glue where I live) and it worked great. The problem is my son put the slime all over his T-shirt and now it’s all dried up and un-removable. Do you have any tricks to get it out? Thank you!

Well, its definitely easy to store but you don’t want it to get all over furniture, rugs, clothes, and hair! If your kids are prone to throwing it and leaving it on things, it might get messy. We play at the counter or table so clean up is easy.

If the eye drops don’t contain boric acid, it won’t work, will it? I have tried this recipe before but it didn’t work. My eye drops have polyvinyl acid, butt no boric acid. Will it still work? I don’t want to waste my ingredients on making slime that won’t work.

WELL… boric acid is BORAX. If you got to the store and buy the box of borax it is the same thing the woman lied about her son being burned from. Borax is a major component of eye solution and if it is good enough for the eyes it is good enough for our clothes. We have allowed the eye industry very wealthy and slander a huge company. Borax is boric acid. So just get a box of borax which will be cheaper in the long run with making slime.

Yes, you can certainly do that. The borax slime recipe isn’t one of our favorites but not for any health reasons more for stretchiness! There is definitely a recipe out there for everyone. Boric acid is in the boron family along with borax powder but they are not one in a same. Boric acid has to go through a rigorous chemical reaction to become the powder that one can not do at home.

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